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Article: Arctic highways urged as new link to Europe
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 10, 1986
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska What the world really needs, said Harold
Heinze, is a good network of highways across the Arctic icecap that
would link Alaska to the Soviet Union and northern Europe, providing
a cheaper way to move commercial goods among nations that border the
Arctic Ocean.
"We know we can drive from the North Slope to Texas," said the
president of Arco Alaska. "There isn't any reason why we cannot go
the other way."
As Heinze sees it, such highways would be made of ice.
"I'm talking about a way to improve upon nature," said the
44-year-old oil executive.
Heinze was one of some 60 visionaries from around the world
attending the first Global Infrastructure Projects Conference ...